| 100% | FOLIOS | 6 | What ff. means in world of printing and books |
| 42% | SKY | 3 | "Scanner" lead-in to mean one of the biggest travel booking sites in the world |
| 38% | END | 3 | What checkmate means, in a game of chess |
| 38% | MEALS | 5 | What "board" means in "room and board" |
| 38% | TEA | 3 | What "chai" means in Urdu and Hindi |
| 37% | FOR | 3 | What "4" means in a lot of texts |
| 37% | AIR | 3 | What goes in and out of your lungs |
| 37% | REPEAT | 6 | Meaning of two dots and a bar, in music |
| 36% | SEEBELOW | 8 | What "*" may mean in a reference book |
| 36% | MODE | 4 | Counterpart of mean and median, in statistics |
| 36% | ZENDA | 5 | Place of imprisonment in book and film |
| 36% | OWLS | 4 | What Hedwig and Errol are, in the Harry Potter books |
| 36% | STATE | 5 | What "taxes," "wonkery" and "I mean" are each anagrams of |
| 36% | INVADE | 6 | What the aliens do in "The War of the Worlds" |
| 36% | SUSANNA | 7 | __ and the Elders, story in the Book of Daniel |
| 36% | THESAINT | 8 | Alias of Simon Templar in books and TV |
| 36% | REVIEWS | 7 | Appraisals of new books in magazines and papers |
| 36% | MODE | 4 | Partner of mean and median, in math class |
| 36% | SONOF | 5 | What "ibn" and "ben" mean, in names |
| 36% | MUSEUM | 6 | ___ of Science and Industry, science center in Chicago built as part of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, that was meant to be temporary |
| 35% | MIMESIS | 7 | Representation of the real world in literature and art |
| 35% | PYEWACKET | 9 | Name of the cat in Bell, Book and Candle |
| 35% | SPLICEDGENES | 12 | What 20-, 27- and 41-Across contain, in a manner of speaking |
| 35% | SUSAN | 5 | Sister of Peter, Edmund and Lucy, in the Narnia books |
| 35% | WASTELAND | 9 | Name of the world in both Fallout and Epic Mickey |
| 35% | BLUEFIN | 7 | One of the fastest and largest tuna in the world |
| 35% | LOUIS | 5 | ___ Armstrong, trumpeter and "What a Wonderful World" musician who is considered one of the most influential figures in jazz |
| 34% | WIT | 3 | "___ and wisdom" (phrase in the title of a book of quotes, maybe) |
| 34% | NAHUM | 5 | "The Book of ___," book between Micah and Habakkuk in the Bible |
| 34% | ATLAS | 5 | A book in which you find the map of the world |